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Wardak Province, Afghanistan

A woman stands beside her premature granddaughter born minutes earlier on the front lawn of a clinic run by Parlimentary Candidate Dr. Roshanaq in Wardak province, Afghanistan, August 22, 2005. Afghanistan has seen much progress in some areas of infrastructure and human rights, and dismal lack of progress in other areas, as it gears up for its first Parlimentary elections since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.